Four minutes after the alarm about the accident at Gröna Lund, the emergency services were there with their first unit. Around 5,000 visitors were then in the park.
The operation was complicated, says the rescue leader to TT.
– We need to evacuate all the people who are there in order to do the most efficient work possible, and the evacuation took place in about ten minutes, so quickly that we were not delayed in our work, says rescue leader Johan Szymanski.
The accident-affected vehicle had gotten stuck in a curve about seven meters up the Jetline roller coaster, and there were a number of people who remained in the carriages when the emergency services arrived.
– It was complicated, it is not common to be stuck up at a high altitude like that, so it is not an easy task but required coordination, both of the ladder trucks and personnel who can climb in these facilities, and therefore we had that kind of special resource with us.
One person died in the accident.
Szymanski does not want to comment on the condition of the others who were in the vehicle when the accident occurred, but according to the medical service, a total of nine people were taken to hospital. Three adults are seriously injured. Among the others, slightly injured, are three children who were taken to Astrid Lindgren’s children’s hospital.
– But anyone who has seen the whole thing can of course be shocked in one way or another, and we have activated support groups to provide help to people who have seen this from one side or the other, says Szymanski.